The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century.
Politics magazine covers the strategies, techniques, and personalities of politics in the US and around the world. It is read by tens of thousands of elected officials, candidates, activists, political consultants, political junkies, reporters and behind-the-scenes opinion makers.
Economic Advice and Rhetoric: Why Do Consultants Perform Better Than Academic Advisers?
This book compares the approaches of consultants and academic advisers and provides an in-depth analysis of their advice argumentation. Both compete on the market for economic advice, with consultants enjoying a larger market share and usually obtaining higher fees. However, academics criticize them for overcharging, shallowness, and quick-and-dirty methods. So, are consultants' clients misled or even cheated? Not necessarily. The book reveals that academics have drawbacks as well; their arguments are less balanced than those of consultants and their estimates contradict each other more.
Managing Business Risk: A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Business, 6th edition
Managing Business Risk is a practical guide that can help in identifying potential areas of risk within a business. The book is filled with expert advice from contributors within the industry, including leading consultants, lawyers, regulatory authorities and risk management specialists
Bridging the gap between heavy theory and heavy practice, Organization Development provides an emphasis on performance and results in addition to an overview of tools, techniques, and processes. Covering basic steps such as marketing, start-up, planning, and evaluation, the book includes a comprehensive discussion of implementation from the individual level to the global. The book gives consultants, managers, and students of the field a holistic perspective into the full range of values that organization development has to offer.
